Wikimania
Wikimania | |
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Status | Active |
Genre | Conference |
Frequency | Annually |
Inaugurated | August 5, 2005 |
Most recent | 16–19 August 2023 |
Organized by | Local volunteer teams |
Filing status | Non-profit |
Website | wikimania.wikimedia.org |
Wikimania is the
Since 2011, the winner of the Wikimedian of the Year award (known as the "Wikipedian of the Year" until 2017) has been announced at Wikimania.
Overview
Conferences
2005
Wikimania 2005, the first Wikimania conference, was held from 4 to 8 August 2005 at the Haus der Jugend in Frankfurt, Germany, attracting about 380 attendees.[1]
The week of the conference included four "Hacking Days", from 1 to 4 August, when some 25 developers gathered to work on code and discuss the technical aspects of MediaWiki and of running the Wikimedia projects. The main days of the conference, despite its billing as being "August 4–8", were Friday to Sunday of that week, from 5 to 7 August. Presentation sessions were scheduled all day during those three days.
Keynote speakers included Jimmy Wales, Ross Mayfield, Ward Cunningham, and Richard Stallman (who spoke on "Copyright and community in the age of computer networks"). The majority of sessions and conversations were in English, although a few were in German.
Sponsors of the event included Answers.com, SocialText, Sun Microsystems, DocCheck ,[18] and Logos Group.
2006
Wikimania 2006, the second Wikimania conference, was held from 6 to 8 August 2006 at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in Cambridge in Massachusetts, United States, with about 400[2]–500[19] attendees.
Speakers included Wales, Lawrence Lessig, Brewster Kahle, Yochai Benkler, Mitch Kapor, Ward Cunningham, and David Weinberger. Dan Gillmor held a citizen journalism unconference the day after.
Wales' plenary speech was covered by the
Three other teams submitted hosting bids, for the cities of London,
2007
As announced on 25 September 2006, Wikimania 2007,[22] the third Wikimania conference, was held from 3 to 5 August 2007 in Taipei, Taiwan. It was the first Wikimania event to hold a volunteer training course.[23]
Three other teams submitted hosting bids, for the cities of London, Alexandria, and Turin. Bids for Hong Kong, Singapore, Istanbul, and Orlando failed to make the shortlist.[24] The winner was announced on 25 September 2006.[22]
On 3 August 2007,
2008
Wikimania 2008, the fourth Wikimania conference, was held from 17 to 19 July 2008 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, with 650 attendees from 45 countries.[4] Alexandria was the location of the ancient Library of Alexandria.[25] Three proposed cities were in the running at the end, the other two being Atlanta and Cape Town. Proposals for Karlsruhe, London and Toronto were also submitted, but later withdrew. There was a controversy about the conference, and even a call to boycott Wikimania 2008 because of Egypt's alleged censorship and imprisoning of bloggers during Mubarak's era.[26][27] Mohamed Ibrahim, a graduate of Alexandria University who worked to bring the conference to Alexandria, told the BBC "I think we have the right to develop and to make freedom of expression on a larger scale."[28] One of his goals was to help grow Arabic Wikipedia which he contributes to since early 2005. An Egyptian cabinet minister spoke at the opening ceremonies on Mubarak's behalf.[25]
2009
The fifth Wikimania conference was held from 26 to 28 August 2009 in Buenos Aires, with 559 attendees.[29] Brisbane, Karlsruhe, and Toronto were also considered as host cities.
2010
The sixth Wikimania conference was held from 9 to 11 July at the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk, Poland. The starting day on July 9 overlapped with the end of the WikiSym academic conference. Bids for Amsterdam and Oxford lost by a small margin.[6] Wikimania 2010 was the first conference which included a big focus on the cultural aspects of the hosting nation, particularly a concert of a philharmonic orchestra, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the death of the most important contemporary Polish composer Władysław Szpilman and the premiere of the film Truth in Numbers?. At the conference, WMF executive director Sue Gardner said the foundation aimed to grow the number of visitors to Wikimedia sites from 371 million to 680 million a month, over the next five years.
2011
In an interview with
After the conference, participants were offered a free tour of Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth or Acre. Shay Yakir, outgoing chairman of Wikimedia Israel, said that for Israel, holding the conference in Haifa was like hosting the Olympic Games.[39]
2012
During the opening plenary, Wales commented on Wikipedia blackout of January 2012, stating "When I go and visit government officials now, they’re a little bit afraid." However he reiterated Wikimedia's commitment to political neutrality except regarding "the most serious things that directly impact our work."[45][46] Wales agreed with keynote speaker Mary Gardiner, co-founder of the Ada Initiative, that Wikimedia had to do more to increase the number of women editors. She said, "As a project of social change, even if it's not an activist project, the Wikipedia community has a responsibility both to its mission and to the people out there in the world to always be on a journey toward diversity — to increase the size of the umbrella of the world."[47][48]
2013
2014
Wikimania 2014, the tenth Wikimania conference, was held from 8 to 10 August 2014[51] at the Barbican Centre in London. Bidding officially opened in December 2012. London was chosen in May 2013 as the host city[52] with the only other bid coming from Arusha (Tanzania).[53][54] The keynote address was given by Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.[55] The event was the first Wikimania addressed by the Wikimedia Foundation's new executive director Lila Tretikov,[55] and was preceded by a two-day hackathon, and a series of fringe events.[55] The conference was documented by the television program 60 Minutes in a program titled 'Wikimania'.[56]
2015
2016
Wikimania 2016, the twelfth Wikimania conference, took place from 24 to 26 June 2016, with peripheral events from 21 to 28 June, in the mountain village of Esino Lario, Italy.[63] Esino Lario had bid unsuccessfully for the 2015 Wikimania. The other candidate city that bid for the 2016 hosting was Manila, Philippines. The venue is the first that is not a major city and plenary sessions are in the outdoor venue. During the event, it was announced that the Wikimedia Foundation's interim executive director Katherine Maher was appointed permanently.
2017
Wikimania 2017, the thirteenth Wikimania conference, was held at Le Centre Sheraton Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 9 to 13 August 2017.[64][65] The event was held in Canada during its sesquicentennial anniversary and in Montreal during its 375th anniversary.[66] The first two days included WikiConference North America.
2018
Wikimania 2018, the fourteenth Wikimania conference, was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 18 to 22 July 2018 at the Cape Sun Southern Sun Hotel. It was the first time the event had a theme. The theme was "Bridging Knowledge gaps: the Ubuntu way forward"[67] with the aim of focusing discussion on building shared strategies to bridge the collective knowledge gaps.
2019
2020–2022
The sixteenth Wikimania conference was scheduled to be held in Bangkok from 5 to 9 August 2020,[70] coinciding with the 15th anniversary of the event. In March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Maher announced a postponement until 2021.[71] On January 28, 2021, WMF chief operating officer Janeen Uzzell announced Wikimania would be moving to a virtual event as the ongoing pandemic affected planning for an in-person event.[72] The 2021 edition took place between August 13 and 17, 2021.[73] The scheduled in-person event would have been hosted by Wikimedia ESEAP (East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific), a first time for a regional collaborative. It was going to be the third time it was to be held in Asia and first for Southeast Asia. It was decided that ESEAP would be given a chance to host Wikimania's next in-person edition.[74]
Wikimania 2022 was again an online event but with the waning of the pandemic some cities had in-person events.
2023
2024
Wikimania 2024 will be held in Katowice, Poland.[83]
See also
- Wiki Indaba conference in Africa
- WikiConference India
- WikiConference North America
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External links
- Wikimania at Meta-Wiki, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki.
News reports
- "Worldwide Wikimania" Sean Dodson, The Guardian, 11 August 2005.
- "Rewriting the rule books" Alan Connor, the BBC, 15 August 2005.
- "The Many Voices of Wikipedia, Heard in One Place" Robert Levine, The New York Times, 7 August 2006.
- "Anybody can edit: A weekend of Wikimania" Ian Sands and Jess McConnell, The Boston Phoenix, 11 August 2006.
- "The Neutrality of this Article is Disputed" Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason, 15 August 2006.
- The China Post – "Wikipedia founder rewards volunteers" Monday, August 6, 2007 – by Dimitri Bruyas.
- "Wikimedia fans meet to discuss Wikimania" Andy Goldberg, News.com.au, 12 July 2012 1:37AM (retrieved 2012-07-15).
- "How Kate Middleton’s Wedding Gown Demonstrates Wikipedia’s Woman Problem" Torie Bosch, The Slate posted Friday, 13 July 2012, at 18:12 PM EDT (retrieved 2012-07-15).
- "Wikimania hits D.C. as Wikipedia faces changes" Hayley Tsukayama, The Washington Post, 14 July 2012.